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Interview with Jose Argotty / By: Jorge Mountain

Colombian Industrial Designer, studying at the University of Nariño. His professional experiences in design, innovation and product development have focused on the areas of furniture, accessories, products, craft products, corporate image and design concepts, tying in different business and social projects highlighting his work as a designer starting from its roots and sociocultural context. One of the major successes in your life been to give continuity to the lines that a child began to be led by that innate taste to create today the lines are being consolidated and have aimed to understand design as a life project.

Excellent awards at national and international cultural participation, exhibitions and won several design competitions. He has worked in companies like Artesanías de Colombia, UN, Corpoamazonia, University of Nariño, Cauca Regional Autonomous Corporation, Bambarabanda and indigenous communities as Inga and Kamentzá in Putumayo and Nariño Awa community.

DESIGN: JOSE ARGOTTY

Tell me a bit of Pasto.
San Juan de Pasto is a city located in southern Colombia, capital of Nariño department. Recognized as the city surprise, thanks to its great landscape, multiple artistic expressions and the colors of the Carnival of Blacks and Whites, Intangible Heritage of Humanity UNESCO; this guarded by a towering mountain Urcunina told him our ancestors, His Majesty universally Galeras volcano active and lively, a city steeped in history where indigenous culture Quillasingas accent.

OVERVIEW Pasto / PHOTO: LUIS NARVAEZ

Something that is often cited when speaking of my city, are the facts about the Independence of Colombia, because not everyone agreed with it. Republican resistance to the project by the inhabitants of the region Pastusa has resulted in the creation of stereotypes that describe us as rude, naive and even there they become the "jokes Pasto. And little has represented the cruelty of the military campaigns patriots attacked the civilian population pastusa committing all kinds of abuse. Why Grass resists Independence?. Pasto elites advocated regional autonomy and wanted to improve the status of their city. Patianos and Indians had their own agendas. So we had to belong to a state with which we disagreed, Pasto today is a working city, colorful, creative, noble, struggling and hungry for progress. National Museum Taken in 2010.

pastusa is good training? to what extent the academy and the new professionals have been bonding and understanding your local factors.
Design as a professional discipline has a few years here, the first graduates of Universities designers arrived in Pasto interior and one of his major contributions was the project that launched the Industrial Design program at the University of Nariño. now and after living experiences as a student, designer and teacher, I dare say with all due respect I see the need to rethink some aspects of the program, as the work of the designer is so broad and flexible curriculum structure that fall short of these changes, our academy has a program based on methodologies that do not apply foreign and out as professionals we have the foundation to face our reality. The industrial designer must handle media skills, technologies, materials, production processes, software, cultural knowledge and social sciences as well as supporting our sport and both local and national level there is still no clarity on the role of Industrial Designer forms of articulation with the context and with other professions. The program at our university is detecting these failures and the proposed restructuring of the curriculum is in process.

Tell me about the design movement in this city, because we always very active and organized.
Several colleagues have begun to form their own companies, its design studios and several freelance design work, we are not organized as a guild but it is clear that the positioning of Industrial Design will not be achieved individually, it is partner necessary. In Nariño there are many opportunities in different fields of action, but little has been explored and we have not connected, in a peripheral country there are many needs and we understand our cultural context to interpret and project from there. "Activism in design and social change", as a result have sensitized me as a designer focusing on several occasions in the social field, to distance myself a bit of commercial design and is usually speculative saturator. Now, if the way we govern were different, more honest and truly democratic and change things, improve the functioning of state enterprises and public undertakings, there would be more jobs for people and professionals, the money would come to favor peoples, we could rebuild our nation from such historical knowledge of the mistakes we made economically and all that we have inherited culturally, sleep with it like many of us, watching this country well off and depending on their own wealth, then it is clear that corruption is not the road. Unfortunately it seems a utopia and we exist for designers, the challenge we must go beyond formal and superficial appearance, our challenge is to transform!.

Grass produces a lot of design but I often seek help to suppliers in Bogota or see problems in the quality of their products, but on the other hand the craftsman pastuso, especially in the field of wood is considered best especially in Colombia sizes. Why do not we see more integration between their particular productive sector and their designs will not even recognize the local factor? be possible to come to recognize and value? To where do they go?

What happens is that the productive sector in Pasto not technically gifted, industrial companies are scarce and technology workshops are available medium, so surely the designer look for options outside. Although many people still look with contempt the crafts, the local factor is strengthened, including the size you mentioned, in my particular case something happened in my home because there is great respect to these offices, to our traditions and as a child I was taught to respect, value and represent my country with pride. Like other designers, I have been working with artisans in my city and one of those projects we become finalists Movelsul 2010, something that had happened to the traditional product, but today I can assure that the potential is so creative in Nariño coarse that for the same abundance do not give the value it deserves and unfortunately that feels, even in the same entities that
promote culture.

PHOTOGRAPHY LUIS PONCE

I see a broad overview and a future to build upon our town, what we are, Grass is rich in talent and artistic expression, if you seek it and give a better handle on the culture, this could be our daily bread. To learn a little of what this region offers invited to parade 6 January in the Carnival of Blacks and Whites, here the splendor of our creative expression is at its highest level, merge art, music, design, culture and the magic becomes floats in Carnival Andino.

pastuso Carnival is recognized as a world heritage site, a university in Rio de Janeiro has a degree in Carnival design. You or any of his colleagues have put this item, you can think of Mardi Gras design?

Some designers have been involved in developing proposals for the carnival, have worked in the mechanical part in the formal aspect, in concept, as well as several artists have won awards in the final. To draw a parallel about the graduate that you mentioned, it is necessary to think of a commitment that goes beyond the training process, because paradigms would be interesting to link up with the artisans without respecting their work and realizing that they who through their work and empirical knowledge have given this majestic Carnival, positioning it as one of the most important for humanity. The Academy rarely been linked with commitment to the Carnival and other fields in which they could participate actively reaching from the professional interests of the programs, it is not a matter only of designers, but artists, musicians, historians, engineers , sociologists and others. If we think Carnival design, understanding the history of it and harness it to bring you more on this Nariño all for taking the picture is huge, lack of commitment, honesty and see with different eyes. Thanks to this interview the idea of \u200b\u200bjoining forces and capabilities for the next Carnival working with my father and my brother two great musicians of southern Colombia and from music and bring an innovative design and refreshing. Let's see what happens.

2011 CARNIVAL FLOAT WINNING MASTER CARLOS RUIZ / PHOTOGRAPHY: LUIS PONCE

Tell me a little of his vision of craft design, or rather the designer's role in this area especially in the region that is very strong in this area.

LINE JAGUAR / DESIGN: JOSE ARGOTTY / flashed: DIEGO DE LA CRUZ

Our department has great wealth in terms of crafts, including its most representative techniques and despite the overwhelming globalization are in force: the varnish Pasto, plated Tamo in Iraca weaving, wood carving, embossing on leather, Watermark, weaving in Guanga among others, to talk a little bit of contemporary crafts in southwestern Colombia mention the arrival of Colombian Laboratory Design Craft Pasto Colombia in 1996 (now Artisan Development Center CDA) was very important because through this company was started to link craftsmen and designers to work together and for development of new products. These processes despite adversity, have been successful, as the positioning of some traditional techniques, opening new markets, training artisan and technical sophistication and design.

MY GRASS / DESIGN: JOSE ARGOTTY

However, the responsibility of designers want to enter this field is great, as you will find several craftsmen besides his talent, have knowledge in the development of artisanal products in the different CDA Craft Development Centres have been trained in design, color management, production processes, finished textures and diversification. Working with artisan communities have learned that research is important in any design process, designer artisan that the relationship revolves around respect and trust, that the challenge is to convince to work with good design, to apprehend the ideas craftsman and to develop them skillfully with their hands, otherwise there will pay attention to proposals outside their shops. It is very important to understand that the goal is to sell the craftsman and not go to fairs to try their luck displaying, it is logical that one leads to another, but sales are achieved with good design, quality, innovation, are therefore a constant search for products successful.

CRAFTS DESIGN ADVISOR OF COLOMBIA in Nariño and Putumayo

One of his major projects is the partnership it has with Bambarabanda, tell me about this work and what it represented in terms of learning and experience, especially the participatory aspect that shines through in his music and communication, which opens ways this experience seemed a designer of objects and products

I had a very good, I am a member for 6 years of the 10 having the band. At first the group tried with other designers and not anything specific that this was a commitment to purchase foreign currency expectations, the idea was to work under the same conditions and they all knew, like a dream that was beginning to build and from that moment I like my friends that Bambarabanda could become one of the most important creative expressions of Nariño. I graduated as an industrial designer and is my source of work, but I like music, graphic design, art, literature, mathematics, anthropology, businesses, various disciplines that relate to the design bother me and I have been guided by these preferences, with all due respect I believe that creativity should not be limited as human beings we are more than a professional title and the band have that creative freedom and in my case the freedom to design.

Work has been quiet and thanks to that the foundations are strong, Bambarabanda achievements are not a matter of luck or commercial sponsorship, is a process that we have learned since is the first time a band Nariñense Alternative Music, if you will, able to excel in the field Nationally, the importance is reflected in the warmth of the people, the smiles of children, the pride and the value of the project by a large percentage of Pasto and Nariño, now the responsibility is greater. Mine is visually convincing followers, entrepreneurs, festival coordinators and people who are at the forefront of business and cultural projects. The graphic work of the first CD The Dance of the Obligaditos was chosen by curators to be exhibited at the National Museum in the sample of the Bicentennial of Independence 2010 and has just been nominated for Best Design Award Disc Subterránica Colombia in 2011, motivating results

SOURCE: Latin American Network Design